Warehouse car



Apri s-, 1924. 1,489,651

w. L. WILSQN ET AL` WAREHOUSE cm Filed June 12. 1922 fill/1,.' j'

Patented Apr. 8, 1924.

UNITED STATES Maasai PATENTfoFFlCE.

WILLIAM L. W'ILSON, 0F GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND IELLRL-E.A LOVERNQOF NEWNAN, GrlElORG-IA. Y

' WAREHOUSE CAR.

Application filed June 12, 1922.V Serial'N'o. 567,632.

or factories for transporting yarns, bobbins,

spools, quills, etc.

In textile mills or factories it is customary to employ a wheeled vehicle and to load the same with various types of material such as yarn, either on spools, bobbins, quills,lor` in hanks, so that the same may be conveniently transported from one section of the mill to another.

Heretofore the body portion of these containers comprised a box having a solid bottoni which presented the possibility of dirt, trash, or other foreign matter accumulating therein, which, when coming into contact with the yarn or other material,l soiled the same and reduced its yvalue so that it was necessary to sell this soiled yarn as a seconds Itis the object, therefore, of this invention to provide a warehouse car with a bottom which will prevent the accumulation of dirt or other foreign matter, it being so constructed as to permit such foreign material to escape.

The construction is such 'that the box will bc self-cleaning owing to the fact that dirt settling into bottom of the box is directed toward an open section thereof. Therefore a warehouse car constructed in accordance with this invention has the advantages that Figure 1 isaiperspective view of a warehouse car constructed Ain accordance with our present invention Fig. 2 is atop plan view of the same;V

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary transverse section; and,

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary detail perspective f view of the bottom. Referring now more particularly to the 'drawings wherein like reference characters indicate like parts, it will bev seen that there is illustrated a box 10 vwhich may be of any preferred ydesignV andA construction and be made of any suitablej material. This box may be made of vulcanized sheetffiber reinforced by wooden bands'or of vulcanized sheet vfiber with thin sheets of steel riveted thereon and reinforced by wooden bands secured with metal guards at the corners, or it may be made of steel sheets alone. In this present instance thev box is shown as provided lwith sides' 11 andends 12 'reinforced by wooden KVbands' 13' and secured at the corners by Vmetal'shields 11i. While a particular constructionfof box is shown byV way of illustration it should be understood that any desired type of box may be employed. f

The bottom of the receptacle ory car body is composed of two-ply material, comprising a top section 15 and a bottom section 16. The top section 15 is bevelled or inclined from its outer edge inwardly and downwardly, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. The bottom section of the two-ply bottom is preferably of equal thickness are secured together at suitable intervals by bolts, screws, rivets, or the like 13.

The bottom is cut away centrally thereof as indicated at 18 and for the purpose of providing a support, a plurality of bars or rods 19 are arranged in spaced relation across the opening 18. These bars or rods may be made of solid fiber, hollow fiber rods, or hollow fiber rods reinforced with metal rods. These spaced rods provide a grating which extends over arportion of the bottom thereby providing an exit for dirt or other foreign material in the car body. These throughout. The two sections of the bottom rods 19 are preferably held in place by registering semi-circular recesses formed in the opposed faces of the sections 15 and 16, thereby providing pockets 20, into which the ends of the rods 19 extend.

For`V enabling the receptacle' toV be conveniently moved from place vto place there is provided preferably four wheels 21, supported in suitable frames 22 which are secured to the bottom section 16 of the twoply bottom. It will be immediately obvious, however, that the number and position of these wheels may be varied to suit the necessities of each particular condition.

Obviously, therefore, the material to be conveyed, such for instance as yarn on spools, bobbins, quills, or in lianks, may be placed in the receptacle in the usual manner. However, any foreign material which may happen tov be in the receptacle will be directed to the opening 18 by the inclination of thetop section 15 of the two-ply bottom.

The vibration of the receptacle inl transit will assist materially in dislodging any dirt which may have a propensity for remaining inthe receptacle. Thus the contents of the receptacle may be transported without danger of the same becoming soiled and consequently unfit for use as first-class material.

The construction described herein is capable Vof being manufactured cheaply without sacrificing in any degree its durability and at the same time provides a structure wherein the vresults sought/to be accomplished are efficiently achieved.

While the details of construction herein described and illustrated have been found by us to be efcient in every respect, it is not our intention that the invention be unnecessarily limited but reservation is made to make suoli changes and modifications as may come within the purview of the accompanying claims.

Having thus described our invention, what is .claimed is: v

1. In a warehouse car of the class described a bottom therefor formed of two sections of material secured together, said bottom being formed with a centrally disposed opening, the upper section of said bottom being inclined from the edge thereof downwardly toward said opening, the iop# posed faces of said sections being formed with recesses and a plurality of bars extending across said opening with their ends secured in the pockets formed by said recesses.

2.v A bottom for a warehouse car formed of two sections of material, means forsecuring said sections together, said bottom being formed .with a centrally disposed opening, the top section of said bottom being inclined from the edge thereof downwardlyV toward said opening, the lower section of the bottom being of equal thickness forming a fiat ylower face, the opposed faces of said sections being formed with semi-'circular recesses, a plurality of bars extending across said openings with'their ends restingin the pocketsl formed by said recesses and ar plurality of wheels secured to the flatlower face outer surface of said lower section.

In testimony whereof we afiixoursignatures.

WILLIAM L. VVILSON. EARL E. LOVERN. 

